Cold War Unit Review

What is a global conflict between the United States and USSR, marked by an avoidance of direct war? (a)  

• Truman Doctrine
• Berlin Airlift
• Cold War
• Space Race

What did the Soviet Union set up in response to the efforts from the West to reunify Germany? (a)  

• An embargo on wheat to NATO nation
• An atomic bomb
• A Soviet blockade of West Berlin
• Construction of the Berlin Wall

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was based on the principle of (a)  

• free trade
• collective security
• appeasement
• isolationism

Who was the leader of Communist China? (a)  

• Chiang Kai-shek
• Syngman Rhee
• Kim II Sung
• Mao Zedong

What is best known for investigating communism in the film industry? (a)  

• The CIA
• HUAC
• The UN
• NATO

The 38th parallel became an important dividing line between (a)  

• Korea and China
• North and South China.
• China and Taiwan(Formosa).
• North and South Korea.

Of the following participants in the Korean War, which fought on the side of the Communists? (a)  

• China
• South Korea
• the United States
• the United Nations

General Douglas MacArthur argued that the Korean War

• was not a vital American interest.

• should be limited to Korea.

• should be extended into a war against China.

• should be extended into a war against the Soviet Union?

The Hollywood were ordered to go to prison because they were convicted of

• being communists.

• being in contempt of court.

• being communist sympathizers.

• leaking top secret material to the press.

Who appeared to winning the Korean War until China actively entered the war? (a)  

• Communists
• South Koreans
• Nationalist
• North Koreans